" Babe. Sweetheart. Darling. When do you plan on finishing your mission?" I grumble.
" Not now, I'm having fun." Minjoon ruffles my hair, as he focused on his system interface. He was chatting with other hosts that he befriended.
" But I'm bored. There's nothing fun here and I can't even legally kill anything I want." I continue to whine.
It's been two years now, since we first came to this world.
Minjoon had already found the traitor half a year ago, but he refuses to drag them into the light.
I wannna kill, fight, punch, slaughter the fuck out of some creatures.
But I can't do that on this peaceful Earth.
The missions with the team are tedious and repetitive to me. We basically steal from the rich and give to those hurt unjustly. Though, it's mostly Nick offering his earnings to the poor. The rest of us, especially Riley, would give less than 5% of our money earned from each scam we do.
My only entertainment right now is Minjoon.
Minjoon continues to massage my scalp as I snuggle further on to his lap.
We're currently in bed, as it's only 7 in the morning. We woke up early for some reason.
[ Alert!
Message from Main system:
This World's Will has taken interest in Julian, the parasite. It's been decided that he will become the next protagonist of this world.
Your host, Kim Minjoon, will have to complete his mission before Julian succeeds the current protagonist, Nick.
Time limit: 72 days.
Stay after mission completion or failure is not possible since the Worlds Will wants to do some cleaning up. Pass along our apologies to your host for any inconvenience this may bring up in his path to a first rate host.]
" Fuck yeah!" I jump up punching the air.
" What? Why're you so happy?"
" Hehe. Here." I forward the message to his system interface.
" Hmm? Oh. Then I guess we won't be here for long, like you wanted." Minjoon chuckles, and leans over to kiss my cheek.
He's now gotten used receiving and giving me affection. ♡´･ᴗ･`♡
" Um, you're not upset right?" I scratch the back of my neck. Minjoon said he liked it here, but I basically just told him we're leaving soon.
" A little bit, but it's fine." He looks at me grinning. " I look forward to the next world."
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Two weeks later.
In the office that Nick rented out for the teams use, we all gathered around in the meeting room. Except for Sophia who took off for a week.
" Nick, you remember how after that mission 7 months ago, Pavel Louverto has been after us?" Minjoon asks as his fingers fly around on the computer on his lap.
" Yeah, I do." Nick sighs as he drinks a can of beer. " Did you find something?"
The leader of a Russian cartel, Pavel Louverto, reached out to Nick. They wanted our team to do a job for them.
Of course, Nick, being righteous and all, refused right off the bat.
Two months later, after a different team failed in that guys request, Pavel started to target the lives of those on our team.
Of course, I discretely killed all the hit men sent after Minjoon and me. Though Minjoon noticed I 'took care' of them, he only knew vaguely of what I actually did. I didn't slaughter anyone in front of his eyes.
After Nick refused Pavel's commission, Pavel took it upon himself to obstruct us from doing any other job than his. During this half a year, the team has been doing very low key operations to avoid Pavel's radar.
However, in the past two jobs we've taken, Pavel's subordinates have intercepted us during our scams. They also made contact with our clients, causing potential clients to keep their distance from us in fear of being caught in the cross fire.
By word of mouth, we advertised our doings in the common folk towns. In this way, people who were wronged by the rich class come seek our expertise.
But, now with no clients coming in for help, we're going out of business.
Click.
Minjoon clicks the enter button on his keyboard, bringing up documents messages onto the tv screens imbedded into the wall in front of us.
" This... No, Sophia wouldn't..." Nick mumbles and stared at the screen in shock. " Are you absolutely sure?!"
Minjoon didn't respond, he simply played a voice recording.
<" Pavel don't you dare touch her! I already told you I'll help smuggle your drugs, I don't need the teams help!" Sophia agitated voice rung through the room.
" Watch your tone. Wouldn't want my temper to flare up in this little girls presence, would you? Now, I don't care if you use that makeshift team of yours or not, safely deliver my goods to their destination and this pipsqueak will safe and sound in your arms. Deal?"
" Deal." Sophia grits out.
" Tomorrow then." >
I lean back in my chair, all ready to watch the drama. I'm just missing some popcorn...
Oh well, I'll make due eating Minjoon's tofu. Since I'm sitting right beside Minjoon, I easily reach over with my right hand and caress his waist, lower back, and thighs.
He stiffened for a moment, but ignored me as he continued this finale act of his.
" 'her'? Who is she talking about?" Riley questions.
" Her daughter." Minjoon expressionlessly states.
" Daughter?!" Nick abruptly stood up, causing his chair to fall back.
" Yup. Her daughter was being held hostage."
" Was?" Nick furrows his eyebrows.
" She had already completed Pavel's demands. Just a few days ago, she escaped with her daughter to another country."
" Escaped?! And she didn't tell us or say goodbye-!" Riley also stood, grasping her hair. She suddenly paused. " Alexander, you... when did you find out? About all of this?" She narrowed her eyes at Minjoon.
Minjoon paused and finally looked up from his laptop. " ... Two days ago."
" Why didn't you tell me?!" Nick growled. He walked over aggressively, wanting to pull Minjoon by his collar.
I catch Nicks wrist.
" Back off." I warn him sternly.
If he raises his hand or voice at Minjoon, his neck will fly off. As he's no longer the protagonist, I don't have to hold back in the face of his idiocy.
Nick is in love with Sophia, of course he would be the most hurt. Riley comes in second place, as she had warmed up to her and considered Sophia as her close friend.
But I honestly couldn't care less. Minjoon is first on my priority list.
Riley collapsed back in her chair as she sighed. " ...Now what?"
Nick was lost his thoughts.
After a few minutes of silence, Minjoon speaks up.
" Oliver and I are leaving."
" What- no, I guess... The team is done." Nick grabs his bottle of beef and gulps the remainder, in hopes of calming the heat in him.
" Leaving? Wait, don't we have to find Sophia-"
" And do what?!" Nick shouts. " She's been leaking our plans to that Russian bastard for months now! If not for Oliver, we would have died 10 times over by now! And she- she acted the same as always, like everything was fine even though we were almost killed because of her!" Nick storms out leaving Riley stunned.
"... Seriously? We're not gonna look for her?" Riley mutters. She turned towards Minjoon and me. " Her kid was held hostage, I'm not saying forgive her but we should at least... understand her or something..." She covers her face in distress.
Minjoon gets up and silently packs his things. Before exiting the room he looks at her and says, " Goodbye, Riley." He pats her head for the last time as her big bro that she usually called him as.
Riley started to quietly sob as she hugged herself.
" Bye, kid." I pat her shoulder once before walking out.
Once Minjoon and I are back in our hotel room, I hug him from behind.
" Why so sad?" I whisper.
I've been to millions of worlds with many hosts, and yet I still don't understand why it's so hard for them to say goodbye to people they barely know.
" ... I feel bad for Riley. All the adults around her left." He mutters as he leaned against me and put his hands on top of mine.
We watch the sun go down through the large window. The red light became replaced by the navy black sky. The stars were dim, giving the city a gloomy atmosphere.
Minjoon sighed, then hummed as he turned around, wrapping his arms around my neck. " Let's go. I'm done here."
I nod.
[ Level D world. Level C mission.
Mission: Root out the traitor in the team.
Mission completed! Congratulations, host 20780! Reward: 7 stats earned! ]
Minjoon had found the traitor, brought their doings to light, and drove her away.
That's right, Minjoon is the one who sent Sophia and her daughter to a whole continent away from Nick and Riely.
Minjoon reads his message as I teleported us back to my house in the System Dimension.